Single-delivery match-box.



J. B. BELL. SINGLE DELIVERY MATCH BOX. APPLICATION FILED APR. 20, 1912.

,080,24;8. Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

Lia/0c 515% l entoo JOHN Br BELL, LOWRY CITY, MISSOURI,

l I SINGLE-DELIVERY MATCH-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 2,1913.

Application filed April 20, 1912. Serial No. 691,997.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. BELL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lowry City, in the county of St. Clair and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Single-Delivery Match-Boxes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in single delivery.

match boxes of that class adapted to be carried in the pocket; and the object of my in vention is to provide a match box of this general character of a simple and inexpensive nature and of a durable construction which can be readily charged and be conveniently'manipulated to deliver matches one at a time.

With these and other objects in view, the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and finally pointed out in the appended claim, it being further understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made Within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views: Figure 1, is a side elevational view of a match box constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2, shows a central lengthwise sectional view. Fig. 3, is an end view.

Heretofore receptacles adapted to be reversed to deliver articles one at a time such as matches and toothpicks, have had the delivery or exit end flared outward. On reversing the receptacle the articles are all crowded toward the centrally disposed delivery opening so that the'article immediately over the opening is frictionally held by the remaining members crowding against the same; In order to force the match or toothpick in alinement with, the hole, through the same, the receptacle must be jarred several times to displace the member.

In my present invention I provide a single delivery match box, comprising a cylindrical receptacle open at one end and having a dished bottom or exit end, an inner surface of which is formed into a series of concentric annular grooves of progressively greater distance from the upper edge, the central port-ion of the receptacle being flanged inward and apertured.

In the drawings the numeral 1, designates a cylindrical receptacle the exit end of which is dished and formed into the annular rounded grooves 2, 3 and 4. Centrally the receptacle is flared inward to provide the flange 5, the delivery aperture 6 being centrally located within the bottom.

The bottom groove 4, is semi-circular and the inwardly directed flange 5, circumscribes the exit opening 6. 'VVithin the grooves are arranged to be held the heads of the matches a, as shown in Fig. 2, in which figure a match a is shown as partly through the opening.

Near the upper end, the receptacle has the pin 7, arranged to be engaged by the bayonet slot 8, of the cap 9.

After the receptacle is charged, on reversing the same the matches will drop into the grooves 2, 3 and 4, the centrally positioned match coming over the exit opening 6. As the flange 5, is directed inward the matches surrounding the central match at their lower ends, which is preferably the head end, glide away from the central match in finding a seat within the semi-circular groove 4:. The central match is then only in contact with the remaining matches near its upper end.

This then enables the central match to be easily removed from the receptacle by giving the same one or more gentle taps. In Fig. 2, the central match a, is shown as partlyextending through the exit opening. In order to start the match'the receptacle must be reversed, but after the match has started through the opening, the same can be held horizontal, when the matches will assome the position shown in Fig. 2.

A match box constructed according to my invention is simple and inexpensive and both durable and efficient in operation, and the matches can one at a time, be removed from the receptacle, with ease, accuracy and despatch.

Having thus described my said invention, ter of the bottom of the receptacle being what Lclaim as new and desire to secure by flanged inward and apertured. 10 United States Letters Patent is: In testimony whereof I affix my'signature,

A match box of the character described, in presence of two witnesses.

6 comprising a cylindrical receptacle open at JOHN B. BELL.

one end and having a bottom formed into a Witnesses: a series of annular grooves of progressively H. C. AUsTIN, greater distance from the open end, the cen- E. D. WALKER. 

